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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND BENJAMIN A. DARE, F

JERSEY OITY, NEw JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO THE BESSONETTE coTToN OOMPRESS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF wAco, TEXAS.

CORE-HOLDING MECHANISM-FOR COTTON-BALING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,967, dated November 27, 1894.

Application filed February 17, 1 394- Serial No. 500,556- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, HAMILTON E. SMITH, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, and BE J MIN A. DARE, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Core-Holding Mechanism for Gotton-Baling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of baling machines wherein raw cotton, or other material is formed into bales or packages by winding the same on a vertically movable core between a rotating or moving bale-support and a vertically yielding compressorroller or cylinder.

The object of the present invention is to provide new and improved means for engaging and disengaging the core, so that it is guided vertically, and the bale is susceptible of be ing conveniently and rapidly removed from the machine and a core introduced for the formation of another bale.

The invention also has for its object to provide novel means for evening or uniformly building up the ends of the cotton roll to produce accurate and nicely finished bales or packages which present a regular smooth appearance, and are more desirable than cylindrical bales or packages having irregular or rough and uneven ends. To accomplish these I objects our invention consists in the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a detail side elevation of sufficient of a cotton baling machine to illustrate theinvention. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical sectional View taken on the line 2+2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asimilar view, showing a modification of the invention. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the core and guide plates or disks exhibited in the modified construction, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional view, taken on the line 55, Fig. at. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional side .view, showing a modified construction of core. Fig. 7 is a detail plan view of the the machine, which may be of any construction suitable for the conditions required, and 3 indicates the rising and falling, or vertically movable boxings for carrying the coreholding spindles 4 and the pressure plates 6.

If our invention is used in a machine wherein the core is designed to move in a perpendicular plane, we provide the main frame with vertical guide slots 7 and form inner and outer guide flanges 8 and 9+ (Fig. 8) on the boxings, which flanges engage the edges of the guide-slots and retain the boxings in proper position while permitting them to slide vertically. We wish it understood, however, that our invention is useful in machines of any construction wherein cotton or other material iswound or convoluted on a core to produce cylindrical bales or packages.

The core 10, Fig. 2, is composed of a tube, and the cotton to be formed into a cylindrical bale is wound or convoluted on this core be- I tween a rotating bale-support 12 and a vertically yielding compressor-roller or cylinder 13. The cotton or other material can be supplied to the bale-support and core by any suitable mechanism, but we prefer to employ a pair of compressing and feeding rollers 14 and 15, Fig. l, the upper roller 14 serving to press the cotton or other material directly against the surface of the rotary bale-support 12; while the lower roller 15 serves to press the cotton or other material against the upper roller 14. I v

The shaft of the rotary bale-support may be provided with a gear 16 engaging a powertransmitting gear 17, which meshes into a gear 18, whereby the rotary bale-support and the compressor-roller are caused to rotate at the same speed. The power-transmitting gear 17 will, in practice, be supported by suitable links 19 and 20, so that it will remain in gear with the gears 16 and 18 as the compressorroller rises, due to the increasing diameter of the bale or package being formed on the core. We do not, however, confine ourselves to the system of gearing illustrated in the drawings, and therefore do not deem it necessary to more fully explain the same.

The boxings 3 are each constructed with a screw-threaded socket 21, and a cylindrical smooth bore 22 of greater diameter than the screw-socket, for receiving the cylindrical hub or hearing 23 on a pressure plate 24, which is provided with a projecting lug or arm adapted to engage the inner faces of the slots 7, whereby the pressure plate is held against rotation, but is permitted to rise vertically. A screw-shaft 26, having an angular head 27, is arranged in each screw-socket 21, and each screw-shaft carries a rigidly attached spindle 4 which is adapted to be moved into or out of one end of the core 10 by rotating the screw-shaft in the proper direction through the medium of a suitable handle, such as a crank 28, Fig. 2.

The spindles 4 are normally non-rotary, and the core 10 is rotated on the spindles by the action of the rotary bale-support 12 and compressor-roller 13 in winding the cotton on the core.

The pressure plates 24 are each provided With a screw-threaded bearing 29, on which is screwed a ring 30, and on the ring is loosely mounted a guide which is composed of a plate or disk 31, of considerably greater diameter than the pressure plate 24, so that such guideplate or disk will overlap the ends of the rotary bale-support and the compressor-roller.

The inner end of each screw-shaft 21 bears against the hub 23 of a pressure plate 24, and, therefore, when the screw-shaft is rotated in the direction to introduce a spindle 4 into the core 10, the pressure plate 24 will be pressed against the guide-plate or disk 31, whereby the desired pressure can be applied against the end of the bale being formed.

The pressure plates 24 are each connected with a boxing 3 by bolts 32 having nuts at one end which can be tightened or loosened to render the pressure plates adjustable. When the screw-shafts 21 are rotated in the proper direction to withdraw the spindles 4 from the core 10, the hubs 23 of the pressure plates 24 can telescope into the boxings, and thus the guide-disks are relieved from pressure against the ends of the bale, so that the latter can be readily removed from the machine and a new core can be introduced and engaged with the spindles 4, as will be obvious from the foregoing description.

In the construction exhibited by Figs. 1 and 2, the guide-plates or disks 31 are susceptible of rotating independently on the rings 30, and this is the most desirable construction, in that the guide-plates or disks are turned by the action of the rotating cotton roll, and thus avoids friction, so that the ends of the cotton roll are evened or uniformly built up. By this means it is possible to produce accurate and nicely finished bales or packages which present a regular smooth appearance at the ends, and are more desirable than cylindrical bales or packages having irregular or rough and uneven ends.

In the modification, Fi 3, the boxings 3, screw-sockets 21, cylindrical bores 22, screwshafts 26, spindles 4, and bolts 32, are constructed, in all substantial respects, the same as described with reference to Fig. 2; but the pressure plates 33 differ slightly in form, and the arms or lugs 34, which engage the inner surfaces of the slots 7, are below the boxings instead of above the same, although this is not material. In the modified construction, however, the core is divided longitudinally into two tapering sections 35 and 36, to the large ends of which are attached or secured the guide-plates or disks 37 which serve to even or uniformly build up the ends of the cotton roll.

The guide plates or disks 37 rotate in unison with the core as the cotton, or other material, is wound or convoluted thereupon; and these guide'plates or disks 37, like the guideplates or disks 31, overlap the ends of the retary bale-support and compressor-roller. The small ends of the core sections 35 and 36 are adapted to enter recesses, as at 38 and 39, formed at the centers of the guide-disks or plates 37, as clearly shown in Fig. 4; and the core sections are so constructed that when they are in position one uponthe other, a socket 40 will be formed at each end for the reception of the spindles 4. In the modified construction the core is designed to be removed from the finished bale, and this is rendered possible by the division of the core into longitudinal tapering sections, each of which carries one of the guide-plates or disks 37. We may also employ a core, such as illustrated in Fig. 6, wherein the core is divided centrally between its ends into two tapering sections 41 and 42, detachably connected at their small ends by a pin 43 on one section entering a socket 44 in the other section. The large end of each section is provided with a socket 45 to receive one of the spindles 4, and the bases of the sockets 45 may be provided with screw-threads 46 to receive the threaded ends of rods, as at 47, adapted to be engaged with the screw-threads 46, for the purpose of withdrawing the core sections from the finished bale.

In the practical operation of the invention, the guide plates or disks 31, or 37, guide the cotton batting to the core and operate to even or accurately build up the ends of the cotton roll. The pressure of the guide-plates or disks against the ends of the cotton roll can be increased or diminished by properly turning the screw-shafts 26 which act upon the hubs 23 of the pressure plates 24.

The guide plates or disks 31, or 37, are, in practice, substantially or approximately of the same diameter as the finished bale, so

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The improved core-holding and releasing mechanism may be employed in connection with that type of cotton baling machines wherein the compressor-roller is mounted in and guided by apivoted frame which swings in the arc of acircle, and, therefore, although We have illustrated the boxings 3 as moving vertically in guide Ways or slots 7, we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to this particular construction and arrangement.

Having thus described our We claim is- V 1. The combination with a rotary bale-support, a rotary compressor-roller, and a core which rises as the material Winds thereupon and is rotated by the action of the bale-supportand compressor-roller in Winding the material on said core, of rising and falling boxings, guides for said boxings in their rising and falling movements, devices carried by the boxings and movable into and out of engagement with the core, guide-plates or disks invention, What .which rise and fall with the boxings and overlap the ends of the bale-support'andcompressor-roller for evening or building up the ends of the bale, and non-rotary pressureplates adjustably connected with the rising and falling boxings and movable toward or from each other for adjusting the gniderplates or disks and causing them to more or less press against the ends of the bale being formed, substantially as described;

2. In a machine for winding cotton or other material into a bale or package, the combination with a core and pressing devices, of rising and falling boxings, normally non-rotary spindles carried by the boxings and on which the core rotates, devices for moving the spindles into and out of engagement'with the core, and guide-plates or disks rising and falling with the boxings for evening or building up the ends of the bale or package being formed, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a suitable balesupport, a compressor-roller, and a core rotated by the bale-support and compressorroller as they wind the material on said core, of vertically movable boxings, spindles 'carried by the boxings and on which said core rotates as the material winds thereon, devices carried by the boxings and adapted to move the spindles into and out of engagement with the core, and loosely mounted guide plates or disks rotatable independent of the core and overlapping the ends of the bale-support and compressor-roller for evening or building up the ends of the bale or package being formed, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a rotatable core,

and'pressing devices acting to wind the ma 'terial on the core and to rotate the latter as the material winds thereupon, of vertically movable boxings provided with spindles which are movable into and out of engagement with the core and on which spindles said core rotates as the material winds thereon,

devices carried by the boxings for moving the spindlesinto and out of engagement with the core,and looselymounted guide plates or disks rotatable independent of the core and adapted to even or build up the ends of the bale or package being formed, substantially as described.

.5. The combination with a suitable balesupport, a compressor-roller, and a core rotated by the action of the bale-support and compressor-roller in winding the material on said core, of vertically movable boxings pro vided with adjustable spindles for engaging and disengaging the core, devices carried by the boxings and adapted to move the spindle into and out of engagement with the core, and loosely mounted guide-plates or disks rotatable independent of the core, rising and falling with the said boxings and overlapping the ends of the bale-support and compressorroller to even or build up the ends or" the bale or package being formed, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a bale-support, a compressor-roller, and a core, of vertically movable boxings, spindles movable into and out of engagement with the core, screw-shafts mounted in the boxings and connected with the spindles, rotatable guide-plates or disks for evening or uniformly building up the ends of the bale or package being formed, and pressure plates acted on by the screwshatts for holding the guide-plates ordisks against the ends of the bale or package, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a core, and pressing devices for forming a bale or package, of vertically movable boxings, pressureplates having a telescopic connection with the boxings, guide-plates or disks acted upon by the pressure-plates and adapted to even or uniformly build up the ends of a bale or package, spindles forengaging the core, and devices for operating the spindles and pressure plates, substantially as described.

8. In a machine for winding cotton or other material into bales or packages, the combination with a rotary bale-support, a rotary compressor-roller, and a core rotated by the action of the bale-support and compressorroller in winding the material on said core, of rising and falling boxings, and loosely mounted guide-plates or disks rising and falling with the boxings, rotatable independent of said core and overlapping the ends of the bale-support and compressor-roller, substantially as and for the purposes described.

9. In a nachine for winding cotton or other material into bales or packages, the combination with a core, and pressing devices, of

normally non-rotary core-holding spindles on which the core rotates as the material winds thereon, devices for moving the spindles lengthwise into or out of engagement with the core, and loosely mounted guides rotatable independent of the core and acting to guide the material thereto and to even or build up the ends of the bale or package being formed, substantially as described.

10. The combination with pressing devices, and a core which rises as the material is wound thereupon, of vertically movable boxings provided with adjustable spindles for engaging and disengaging the core and on which said core rotates, and loosely mounted guide-plates or disks which rise and fall with the boxings and are rotatable independent of the said core, substantially as described.

11. The combination with a bale-support, a compressor-roller, and a core, of suitable boxings, spindles movable into and out of engagementwith the core, screw-shafts mounted in the boxings and connected with the spindles, rotatable guide-plates or disks for evening or uniformly building up the ends of the bale or package being formed, and pressure plates acted on by the screw-shafts for holding the guide plates or disks against the ends of the bale or package, substantially as described.

12. The combination with a core, and pressing devices for forming a bale or package, of suitable boxings, pressure plates having a telescopic connection with the boxings, guideplates or disks acted upon by the pressureplates and adapted to even or uniformly build up the ends of a bale or package, spindles for engaging the core, and devices for operating the spindles and. pressure plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HAMILTON E. SMITH. BENJAMIN A. DARE. Witnesses:

B. F. TELL-ER, MAGGIE MACFARLAN. 

